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80G formatting
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chris wrote:
I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I tried to use Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that disk was divided 8M and 76G. Use the manufacturers format software. -- Stacey |
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ChrisJ9876 wrote: From: chris I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I tried to use Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that disk was divided 8M and 76G. I couldn't delete 8M part which is obviously useless. Anyway it works but I disabled 8M part of the disk to get off the letter showing in Windows 8m hard drive which with its capacity was piece of rubbish. Is this the nature of 80G seagate or I bought a faulty disk? Thanks, Chris That's normal. I've got a IBM 40gig drive that Partition Magic shows 7.8meg as unallocated. Can't explain why -- maybe somebody else can. But it shouldn't show up with a drive letter assigned to it, since it's unallocated. Not sure what you mean by "disabled it". I gave up. Even when I used the the manufacturers formatting software (seagate) I couldn't get read of 7.8M. I set up it as unallocated and forget for a while. I think that probably no one knows what to do with this problem.. Chris |
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"chris" wrote in message ... I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I tried to use Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that disk was divided 8M and 76G. I couldn't delete 8M part which is obviously useless. Did you contact the manufacturer? |
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80gb formats as 76.3gb. It's the old 1.44mb = 1mb thing.
Cari www.coribright.com "chris" wrote in message ... I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I tried to use Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that disk was divided 8M and 76G. I couldn't delete 8M part which is obviously useless. Anyway it works but I disabled 8M part of the disk to get off the letter showing in Windows 8m hard drive which with its capacity was piece of rubbish. Is this the nature of 80G seagate or I bought a faulty disk? Thanks, Chris |
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Hello Chris, Every time that I've formatted a drive as a logical, i've
ended up with an unallocated 8MB partition on the drive! With Win XP, you can have as many active (NON Logical) drives as you like! So I no longer format drives as logical and no more wasted 8MB unallocated space! Starz_Kid... "chris" wrote in message ... I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I tried to use Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that disk was divided 8M and 76G. I couldn't delete 8M part which is obviously useless. Anyway it works but I disabled 8M part of the disk to get off the letter showing in Windows 8m hard drive which with its capacity was piece of rubbish. Is this the nature of 80G seagate or I bought a faulty disk? Thanks, Chris |
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That refers to Windows2000 setup, which has never been on or near any of my
macines in any way, shape, or form. Not sure that this is the same situation. From: Andy http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;225822 Setup Reserves Disk Space for Upgrading to Dynamic Disk Some space at the end of the disk is reserved by Setup in case you later want to upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk. Dynamic disk information is saved at the end of the disk. The amount that is reserved is a minimum of one cylinder, or 1MB, whichever is greater. One cylinder can be up to 8MB, depending on drive geometry and translation. On 27 Jul 2003 20:21:11 GMT, ospam (ChrisJ9876) wrote: From: "S.Heenan" chris wrote: ChrisJ9876 wrote: From: chris I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I tried to use Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that disk was divided 8M and 76G. I couldn't delete 8M part which is obviously useless. Anyway it works but I disabled 8M part of the disk to get off the letter showing in Windows 8m hard drive which with its capacity was piece of rubbish. Is this the nature of 80G seagate or I bought a faulty disk? Thanks, Chris That's normal. I've got a IBM 40gig drive that Partition Magic shows 7.8meg as unallocated. Can't explain why -- maybe somebody else can. But it shouldn't show up with a drive letter assigned to it, since it's unallocated. Not sure what you mean by "disabled it". I gave up. Even when I used the the manufacturers formatting software (seagate) I couldn't get read of 7.8M. I set up it as unallocated and forget for a while. I think that probably no one knows what to do with this problem.. Chris The 8MB partition contains the MFT. -- The MFT, by definition, is only used by NTFS, and is contained within the partition, just as the FAT is contained within a FAT or FAT32 partition. The 8meg (or 7.8, or whatever) in question is outside of the other partitions. In some cases a partition can be created in it, but usually not, in my experience, and I've never been able to add it into an existing one. I suspect it might be related to cluster size/number of clusters/boundary alignment, etc., but I can't say for certain, and so far my searches haven't found an answer. And 8megs out of 40 or 60 gigs isn't really a burning concern, other than curiosity. |
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"chris" wrote in message
... I bought yesterday a new 80 G (8M cache) hard drive and when I tried to use Fdisk or Partition Magic to format it both programs showed that disk was divided 8M and 76G. I couldn't delete 8M part which is obviously useless. Anyway it works but I disabled 8M part of the disk to get off the letter showing in Windows 8m hard drive which with its capacity was piece of rubbish. Is this the nature of 80G seagate or I bought a faulty disk? Thanks, Chris This behaviour is perfectly normal. I assume you're writing about an extra harddisk (not the first one). The partitions you've created are probably logical. Logical partitions are inside an extended partition. A (physical) disk can contain at most 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary and an extended partition, but must at least contain 1 primary partition. When you create a logical partition, a primary partition will be created first. This partition will be the smallest possible size, because it won't be used. The smallest possible size is often 7.8 MB (that depends on the drive geometry). Solution: If you can use a primary partition, and really bother about the unused 8MB, then first create the primary partition, and then add the logical partitions. By the way, if the 8MB partition is "unformatted" Windows won't recognize it, and won't assign a drive letter. In your case, it was probably formatted as FAT or NTFS. |
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